Aye, Aye whats going on here then

Another long bike ride over the weekend, dinner with Nelly and Itzhak, breakfast with Natalie, it's been a busy few days, Nelly our French Israeli landlord prepared Italian food for our delight, Cafe Louise was our destination with Natalie, this was lush as usual but having ate my bodyweight in bread I suffered almost immediately, have you noticed that the trouble with things you shouldn't eat is one bite leads to one more, and one more and on, and on, I left the restaurant feeling like death and groaned all the way home, joints hurting and energy levels zapped, when are we ever old enough to learn? I remember being told as a child, 'When will you every learn?", obviously not this weekend!

The park in Tel Aviv was full to overflowing, the basketball courts were full of families playing hoops, and one court was taken over by dancers strutting their stuff round and around, with a shimmy here and a shuggle there, there were huge groups of children on the South side of the river, all dressed in their Town colours faces painted and some in fancy dress and others in huge costumes, some were dressed as smurfs and some were dressed as glittery punk rockers, but best of all was the noise, noise from the children, noise from the announcer, from the music and from the passers by, banners were either side of the river and everyone was having fun in the sun.

We crossed the main three lane carriageway and almost fell of our bikes as we cranked our necks to see the jugglers who were in front of the stopped traffic juggling and performing acrobatics on the road. I love Tel Aviv, you just never know what you are going to see next.

Once we arrived home My Beloved had to pop into the office and then the supermarket, we really need to remember NOT to take the car to the supermarket on Shabbat, five min drive to marina, five min in supermarket, over an hour in the car park trying to get out, and by the time he got to the exit they tried to charge him as he had been in the car park over the hour, as he pointed out most of that had been trying to get out, and seeing as he didn't have a credit card to pay they let him out, well he would be holding the traffic up even longer if they made him wait for me to bring a credit card to get him out!!